There are so many people at this Fa conference, one
conference hall can't hold everybody. Actually, I've already been to four
different meetings in a row. (Applause)

Between July 20th of 1999 and July 20th
of this year, four full years have gone by. The persecution has lasted for four
years, and in those four years Dafa disciples have endured unprecedented trials.
We don't acknowledge this persecution, but it has happened. In this persecution,
how you, as Dafa disciples, put an end to the persecution that the old forces
have forced upon us and negate the arrangements by the old forces, how you
manage to walk the righteous path of a Dafa disciple, how you save sentient
beings during this persecution--all of these are responsibilities bestowed upon
Dafa disciples by history. Dafa disciples must do those things and do them well.
And what's happened proves that you have done really well. You've shaken the
cosmos and stunned all the beings in the cosmos.

The magnitude of this evil persecution isn't something that
people could imagine, and there are terrifying factors behind it. This
persecution against the masses is different from the persecutions of the past.
The purpose of their persecution and the tactics they've used are so base,
cruel, and violent, and they do their utmost to hide it from the world. Rotten
ghosts and the world's scoundrels have utilized the regime's power to
orchestrate an unprecedented persecution that is the most despicable and base,
the most indicative of their evil nature, and disguised by the worst indecency
and shamelessness, and it's all based on lies. The persecution against Dafa
disciples has been grim, and the persecution of sentient beings has likewise
been grave. Humankind feels that this is an abuse of man's human rights, freedom
of belief, and basic humanity. In reality, it's severe damage and interference
by the evil factors in the cosmos to the Fa-rectification and to the entire
cosmos's moving toward the future. All that have taken part in this persecution
will have to be held responsible to history, and none that have participated
will be able to escape from the future positions they've determined for
themselves during this period.

In this persecution, so many of the world's people have been
poisoned, and for so many sentient beings, because of the minds of the world's
people having been poisoned, the gigantic cosmic bodies that are connected to
them have disintegrated. Why did Fa-rectification have to be done? To save the
beings in the cosmos--save all the beings in the cosmos, normalize bad beings
and turn them into good ones, have sinful beings be rid of their sins, and have
those warped beings reconstructed into good ones again. Dafa brings humankind
these wonderful things, and it brings the beings in the cosmos these wonderful
things. But during this persecution many beings have indeed lost their chances
to be saved and have been denied salvation. For Dafa disciples, this suppression
that you've encountered is unprecedented. On the other hand, though, because you
are Dafa disciples, you're able to confront these things, and you're able to
overcome this huge tribulation. What has happened proves that you have made it
through, and the evil's momentum is declining fast. In the human world--whether
it's in Mainland China or other places--you've seen that this evil drama no
longer has the rampant momentum it had back then, and this has reduced the
losses suffered by sentient beings and Dafa disciples during this persecution.
This wouldn't be possible without the joint efforts of every Dafa disciple. Of
course, Fa-rectification's massive force is pressing forward at an even faster
pace. But before Fa-rectification's massive force arrives, in order to avoid and
lessen the poisoning and harming of Dafa disciples, of all of humankind, and of
even broader related groups of beings, Dafa disciples have given so, so much to
lessen the losses. Every Dafa disciple on the path of validating the Fa is fully
using his abilities and putting to use the skills and knowledge he's acquired in
the ordinary society in his efforts to validate the Fa, save sentient beings,
and clarify the facts, and they've done really well.

Actually, what ordinary people have suffered in this
persecution is even more severe. The propagandizing of the vicious and poisonous
lies has caused a lot of people to become unsavable and unkeepable. And along
with these people who can no longer be saved or kept, where they came from, the
larger and numerous groups of beings at different high levels who sustain their
lives, they too will have to disintegrate. When we talk about it, it's only a
few words, but these kinds of gigantic changes that are actually, truly taking
place in the cosmos are horrific. When far off cosmic bodies disintegrate it
looks to people like a magnificent sight and something to explore. But when the
celestial bodies right before people disintegrate, humankind won't think it's a
magnificent sight. And when those enormous cosmic bodies and gigantic beings
disintegrate, how horrific is that? So many lives are in there! Countless and
measureless beings will be destroyed, and all of it is the result of what the
old factors in the cosmos have done. They have arranged in my Fa-rectification,
based on the deviated notions in the cosmos, the weeding out or keeping of what
they want--they arranged everything that they want. None of that was my wish,
and it has severely interfered with the Fa-rectification and severely interfered
with the salvation of sentient beings. So all of those factors that have taken
part in it and interfered with the Fa-rectification, all the way down to the
evil beings here among human beings, they'll all be held responsible to history
and they absolutely cannot get away with it.

From the perspective of Dafa disciples' validating the Fa, we
don't acknowledge the old forces' arrangements, but I knew that the old forces
would come out--it was just a question of which form they'd take. The reason
being, the Fa-rectification wouldn't impact just a small number of beings, but
the beings in the entire cosmos, no being would be able to escape this gigantic
change in the cosmos, so the affected beings would all have their own
understandings of the Fa-rectification, and they would thus look at this Fa-rectification
affair using their own notions. The higher the level of a participant, the
bigger the interference to the Fa-rectification. One single thought or one
single move by him will cause total upheaval down below. So this persecution was
ultimately caused by the different understandings at the cosmos's uppermost
levels. What they wanted has brought about the interference to the Fa-rectification
of the cosmos. So I knew all of this would happen, and I knew that the beings at
lower levels would, when they were impacted, come out to do their things some
way or other. So Dafa disciples' listening to the Fa, obtaining the Fa,
cultivating, and establishing a foundation for Dafa in this world--thisforce--it's
exactly for the disciples to save sentient beings during this period and
establish Dafa disciples' mighty virtue, and thus become the most sacred, Dafa-forged,
beings. Many Dafa disciples made grand vows in history to save sentient beings
and do what they should do in the last stage of the cosmos's
formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction.

During this Fa-rectification Dafa disciples have been
fulfilling their promises and have fully done what they should have. Those
who've done well, in particular, have fulfilled their pledges. No matter what,
in this persecution, regardless of how much a Dafa disciple has been persecuted,
what awaits a Dafa disciple is the most wonderful. That is because what's seen
as "life" and "death" in the human world aren't true life
and death for a being, so during this persecution however much a Dafa disciple
has been persecuted, that's how much honor and glory he'll receive. So looking
at it from this perspective, Dafa disciples, strictly speaking, no matter how
much you're suffering right now in the persecution, cultivators don't care about
the gains and losses of this world, and cultivation is really to seek
Consummation and a being's eternal glory. So as Dafa disciples, you have in fact
gained an opportunity to temper yourselves, to validate the Fa, and to proudly
showcase your mighty virtue as a Righteous Enlightened Being of Dafa in this
environment (applause). It's other sentient beings who are really being
poisoned, and they will truly lose their lives. Even though those beings who've
been persecuted have lost everything in this world, the persecutors themselves
will lose everything of theirs forever. The cosmos's Fa principles are just, for
sure.

So for Dafa disciples, no matter how harsh this period of
history that we're going through is, there's nothing to grieve over. What we're
thinking about is saving sentient beings, and you should fulfill [the
aspirations of] a being who came for the Fa and the significance of your coming
here. So we have nothing to regret, and what awaits Dafa disciples are all
wonderful things. The saddest is those people in the world who've been
persecuted and the old forces themselves. Their ending is what's truly sad.

We've gone from July 20th of 1999 to today, and
even though the time hasn't been that long, it feels to you like it's been
forever. You have personally experienced the environment of terror created by
the evil forces, and felt the agony and difficulty brought to our cultivators'
families and the hardships brought to our cultivators from the psychological
pressure, so it feels like it's been forever. But actually, in the overall Fa-rectification
of the cosmos it's just an instant. The times of different dimensions have
resulted in your sense of the length of time. In one minute or one second, a
being can complete a lifetime that feels endless to him, and in ten thousand
years a being can complete a lifetime that feels really quick. Actually, over
the course of the whole Fa-rectification, a lot of our students thought
something back when the situation was really tough, which was, "When is
this persecution going to end?" These days there aren't that many people
who say that, you're very rational and are more clearheaded when you face the
evil, you see what the various evil beings are trying to accomplish, and you
understand full well our responsibilities as Dafa disciples.

Actually, when we look back after we've gone through this
period of history, the feeling you get really is pretty special. We've made it
through such a severe environment, and we've come through the most evil period
of human history. That's because it wasn't just humans' doing but the result of
beings from the entire cosmos focusing here. The manifestations of this
persecution in the human world are manifestations of all of the beings of
different levels being here and using human actions here, so what Dafa disciples
have been enduring isn't just agony and pressure brought about by humans, but
things brought about by the involvement of high-level cosmic bodies, and even
the involvement of more cosmic bodies at different levels. All beings in the
cosmos are watching humankind intently, and the Three Realms has become the
cosmos's focal point.

Of course, this persecution is something that high-level old
beings started plotting ages ago in history. I've said that the Three Realms was
created for the Fa-rectification. In the cosmos there was really no such thing
as the Three Realms before. Some students have asked me, "Master, do other
colossal firmaments have a Three Realms?" I told them that they don't. The
Fa-rectification of the cosmos was to take place right here, it was to be done
right here, so the Three Realms was created here. Every blade of grass, every
tree, every speck of soil, every stone, from people to things--all the beings
have come for this Fa. Looking at it from the vantage point of the whole cosmos,
the time that's passed is not that long. But, from the vantage point of the
beings at different levels of the cosmos, the time has seemed endless. A lot of
beings no longer know why the Three Realms was created, and they've forgotten
the ultimate purpose of creating the Three Realms. I said before that everything
came for this Fa. All of the beings in the Three Realms came for the Fa, were
created for the Fa, and were forged for the Fa. But, not all of them play a
positive role in their actions. Back then the old forces, with their
arrangements, believed that those that wouldn't play a positive role in their
actions would make contributions to the Fa just the same, so the old forces
thought that those beings should reach Consummation too. I say no! This
persecution itself isn't acknowledged in the Fa-rectification, and all of those
who play a negative role are taking part in the old forces' persecution and will
be weeded out. This is for sure, no matter who you were in the past.

A lot of students have said that Master is so merciful.
Strictly speaking, in fact I'm not amidst mercy. Neither am I amidst evil. If I
were amidst mercy, the negative beings would be completely weeded out in the
cosmos, in which case the balance would be lost in the cosmos, and as a result
all beings would find life meaningless. If I were amidst evil, how would the
good beings survive? The cosmos would become a demonic body. I don't have any of
that, and I'm not amidst any of that. But I know about all of it, I'm able to
control all of it, and I'm balancing all of it. The Fa's principles in the
cosmos are absolutely just. I came with good thoughts, and I came with the wish
to save all beings. (Enthusiastic applause) What's taken place has proven
that this is how I've been doing things, and it's precisely the old forces who
have interfered with the Fa-rectification.

At present, the old forces have already been completely
weeded out. From the ones in the highest forms all the way down to the so-called
Gods and warped beings who have, as arranged by the old forces, taken part in
the Fa-rectification and affected the Fa-rectification at different levels, all
of them have been weeded out entirely. They're gone. And those dark minions who
actually carry out specific tasks are being completely weeded out, too. It's not
that we aren't merciful. As a result of the damage they've done, enormous,
measureless, and countless beings have been destroyed. The reason is, if those
beings weren't destroyed, the Fa-rectification wouldn't be able to press
forward, and it wouldn't be able to catch up and seize the final chance before
the entire firmament ultimately dissolves. So it's a serious issue.

Turning the topic to things here, none of the things we
encounter in the human world are accidental, and they aren't just things that
happen at this human place. When Dafa disciples validate the Fa and save
sentient beings, we can't tell people higher truths of the Fa because human
beings aren't able to accept or understand them. So that alone makes it quite
hard to save sentient beings. All beings have a side of them that's aware, but
they also have a side that's unaware. A person's human surface in this world,
which coexists in this world alongside Dafa disciples, is exactly the part
that's unaware. And when it comes to that unaware part, as it fights to benefit
itself in the human world postnatally, [the person's] mind is filled with bad
factors. And this is especially true in recent times, where humankind's morality
has declined drastically, and on top of that, the *** Party that's appeared in
China has caused the minds of the people in China to become twisted and warped,
and they aren't even able to tell what's good and what's bad. All of these
things have severely affected the salvation of sentient beings, and they've made
it hard for Dafa disciples to cultivate themselves and save sentient beings. But
as Dafa disciples you can't give up just because it's hard, and that's because
this is a responsibility bestowed upon you by history, and it's a magnificent,
grand vow you made and something you've waited a long time for.

While they're clarifying the facts some students often run
into people who don't want to listen, don't accept things, or are even
antagonistic. You shouldn't let one person's opposition be a mental setback for
you or make you lose the courage to save sentient beings. A Dafa disciple...
what's a Dafa disciple? He's a being created by the most magnificent Fa, (enthusiastic
applause) and he's rock-solid and as indestructible as diamond. How could a
few words from an ordinary, bad person count for anything? "However evil
you are, you can't change me. I simply must accomplish my historic mission, and
I must do what a Dafa disciple should do." That's [how you should be,]
because we should be clear that in human society and among the beings in this
cosmos, there are ones that can no longer be saved, and there are even a lot who
can no longer hear the truth. You'll run into this kind of person when you
clarify the facts. You should be clear and rational: we're saving those who can
be saved. But as Dafa disciples, you cultivate kindness, so you should be
compassionate. Whether they're receptive or not, you should always treat them
with compassion, and you can't get competitive with ordinary people or look at
sentient beings with human thoughts. Just do whatever you should with
compassion, regardless of whether they're receptive or not. Compassion comes
from a person's cultivation, and it's not something that's acted out; it comes
from deep inside, and it's not something done to show others. It's something
that exists eternally, and it doesn't change with the passage of time or changes
in circumstances.

When we've passed through this part of history and we take a
look back, if every Dafa disciple is able to say, "I've done what I was
supposed to do," (applause) then that's the most extraordinary. (Long
applause) But, there are a lot of students who've done a disservice to
themselves, and who haven't fulfilled what they wanted to do and what history
bestowed upon them. The good thing is, this persecution hasn't yet ended
completely, so there are still chances. As for how to make amends and what to
do, that's up to you. Since the day I began teaching the Fa I've said that what
I do is responsible and honorable toward human beings, toward society, and
toward all sentient beings. (Enthusiastic applause) Everything I've said
will come true in the future, and the vows I made will be fulfilled in the
future. (Applause)

No matter how long of a historic process the human race has
gone through over the course of Earth's existence, be it thousands or tens of
thousands of years, in the eyes of Gods it's been a quick process. It's the time
here that has created a difference in time for sentient beings. As beings who
came into the Three Realms, as Dafa disciples in the Three Realms, you all know
that this Three Realms didn't exist before in the cosmos. As I've discussed a
number of times while teaching the Fa, the reason it was created was for the Fa-rectification
to make use of it here during the final stage of
formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction. If it couldn't truly play a Fa-rectification
role during the Fa-rectification, or, in other words, if this Fa-rectification
were to fail, or during the Fa-rectification at this human place the human
beings didn't show a positive attitude toward Dafa one bit and Dafa disciples
didn't perform well, if any one facet didn't go well, then the Three Realms
wouldn't exist in the future cosmos. To put it another way, this place here
would disappear in the near future. But Dafa disciples have done really well and
accomplished what Dafa disciples were supposed to, humankind has shown its
positive side, and I've harmonized here what I wanted to have. (Applause).

Even though some beings have taken part in the persecution,
and a lot of beings have been indifferent, and a lot of beings haven't been
supportive even though they have the ability to do so, the great majority of
people, the great majority of all the beings, are sympathetic and supportive,
which means they've shown their positive side. With you being able to cultivate
here, being able to validate the Fa here, and Master being able to complete what
he wanted to accomplish here, the sentient beings here have created
opportunities for their future. So in the future the Three Realms will exist
forever. (Enthusiastic applause)

Recently we've done a lot of specific things, and you've seen
that. You know, I said at a previous Fa-conference that this year would be an
eventful year. A lot of things have in fact happened since the beginning of the
year. As far as the political gang of scoundrels in Mainland China goes, several
high-ranking officials who've persecuted Dafa have been found guilty in U.S.
courts, and the head scoundrel has been sued in court; there's the SARS epidemic
that you all know about warning humankind, the troubles brought by Hong Kong's
Article 23, the huge flood in Mainland China, and notably, the TV station that
exposes the persecution airing globally. All of these things have dealt serious
blows to the evil. They consider all these things to be disasters, and that
includes Dafa's current situation. All of them might appear to be natural
manifestations, but if the evil beings hadn't been purged away a lot of things
couldn't have been accomplished. That's because there were their factors behind
humans, and they were taking the place of humans--they weren't just controlling
people, but replacing people. When you were clarifying the facts to people they
were controlling people and making them turn a deaf ear to you. It was demons
exerting control.

As of today, we can say this: for the evil forces, the old
forces, the evil people in this world, for all those factors that persecuted the
Fa, they've lost the battle. Looking ahead, the situation is going to quickly go
through even greater changes. And that means that this period of history will be
behind us soon, and we'll soon enter the next stage of things. Some Dafa
disciples always used to ask, "Why aren't there many new students during
this period of time when we spread the Fa?" There was of course the factor
of the evil exerting control as well as the factor of the old forces blocking
them. The reason I didn't demolish those directly is that the next batch of
people belongs to the next batch of affairs. This period is for Dafa disciples
to become mature in their cultivation, save sentient beings, and validate the Fa.
Looking at the current situation, the enormous current of Fa-rectification is
soon going to gush over here, so a lot of things are being demolished bit by
bit, and the most surface dimension is being reached bit by bit. That's why in
some regions new students have started to come one after another. And if that's
the case, the overall situation is going to change really fast.

With all of what I just talked about, all the same, we've
made it through this part of history, and whether it's been a privileged gain
for us or something forced upon us by the old forces, during the persecution
Dafa disciples have done what we Dafa disciples are supposed to do. To put it
another way, during this persecution you've established the mighty virtue that
Dafa disciples should have. You've done what you should for the sentient beings,
you've done what you should for yourselves, and you deserve to be the
Enlightened Beings you're about to become. (Enthusiastic applause)

I don't want to say more about the more specific things,
since recently our Fa conferences have been quite frequent, I've said a good
amount, and you're still in the process of trying to understand a lot of things.
A lot of the things I talked about aren't just superficial things, so you're
still studying them. So this time it's only because this Fa conference of ours
is so grand that I wanted to come and meet with our students. And notably there
are a lot of students from far away and isolated areas who haven't seen me for a
long time, so I wanted to take this opportunity to meet with our students, to
see everybody, that's all. (Long, enthusiastic applause)

Editor's note: The translation is subject to further improvement so as to be
closer to the original text. Last updated: August 05, 2003.